No but he did purchase a phone that he knew the person who was selling it didn't own. Until the 'finder' had gone through the process required above he had no right to sell it so was selling stolen property to Gizmodo (and thus Gizmodo were purchasing stolen property).
I doubt Dreamweaver sells anywhere near as many copies of CS as Photoshop or Illustrator do. Both PS and Illustrator are unmatched for features and quality whereas Dreamweaver was designed by Macromedia primarily to code HTML and Codefusion. Only recently has Dreamweaver's PHP support reached a decent level and it's rivals (Netbeans, Eclipse, etc.) are by far much better tools for server side development. I don't know if it is similar for ASP but both Netbeans and Eclipse also support JSP so that's 2 out of the 3 major server languages.
Flash might sell quite a few copies, but people are moving away from using Flash except for a few pre-written apps (such as a media player, fancy news screen or canvas replacement).
I've reread your post and the article as requested by Anon and I still don't see any difference other than the amount of entries Google/Microsoft gets.
As an example, Visiting Slashdot in Google Chrome would produce a series of entries like this:
s
sl
sla
slah
sla
slas
slash
slashd
slashdo
slashdot
slashdot.
slashdot.o
slashdot.og
slashdot.o
slashdot.or
slashdot.org
http://slashdot.org Final submission for phishing check
Firefox and IE would produce the following entry on Google or Microsoft's servers respectively when they check against their phishing filters:
http://slashdot.org
So the only difference is that Chrome tells Google I make the occasional typo.
No, Firefox and IE both have autosuggest on the search field (exactly as Chrome has it, except IE sends to Bing by default). The only difference is Google/Microsoft only receive the URL on submit in IE or Firefox, not key by key (because Firefox still checks Google's phishing list and IE checks Microsoft's).
Firefox: Auto suggest from the search box, phishing check from the address bar
IE: Same as Firefox
Does Opera not do these? (I don't have it installed here so can't check)
I don't get the whole Google panic thing... I know they know a lot of assorted pieces of information about from various different things, so does my ISP, the DNS I use (not my ISPs crappy one), McAfee (at work) and an assorted bunch of advertising sites (again at work due to lack of AdBlock).
As far as I'm concerned the vast majority of the data Google have on the account I have with them is to help them better serve me as a customer (just as I'm better served as a customer at my local shops because they know who I am and what I like). The rest of that data I actually ASKED them store (emails and some collaborative documents).
Because those are the people most likely to have actually paid for the content (via license). You don't need a license for iPlayer, so there is a chance (and I'm willing to bet it's quite high) that a lot of the viewers haven't paid for the content.
I live in the UK, have a TV and can watch more channels than are available on Freeview and all legally without a license by watching it on a catchup service on the internet (I've even asked TV Licensing about it). It's 'required' if you watch or record a currently broadcasting show but not if you watch a catch up service such as ITVPlayer, 4oD, etc. There was even an article on the BBC website about whether you could watch iPlayer without a license (yes as long as it's not currently being broadcast). Admittedly this requires more work than just plugging your Sky/Virgin/Freeview/Aerial into a TV but you don't have to do it that way and the license isn't compulsory.
TV Licensing can be a huge pain in the backside when they try chasing you down but that's because their check basically involves searching for unlicensed addresses, phoning Virgin/Sky to see if you have a TV package with them, if not checking your house for an aerial (when there are a few in the area they'll send someone to quickly check). If you have either of these they pester you.
Actually, it's D Rattmann. The Aperture Science website set the standard for their usernames as initial+surname (the site uses cjohnson for Cave Johnson the creator of Aperture Science). Doug Rattmann is believed to be the man who leaves the markings on the walls in Portal and was a programmer for Aperture Science according to the information in the ARG.
You do realise all of that CSS is from an unfinished specification for CSS3? Firefox, Webkit and Opera only support them through temporary names so you can experiment with them, the naming and usage hasn't been finalised. At the moment, IE's aiming at being at least complete in its support for CSS2 (the current standard) and THEN adding some of the new features for CSS3 when it's finalised (Microsoft have avoided trying to support unfinished parts of the CSS and HTML specifications for a while now).
Yes, this does mean we are unlikely to see Video and Audio tags finalised any time soon unless the other browser vendors can make up their minds without MS' vote
Do you have a website?
Has your hosting company checked your site to make sure nothing you have posted breaks any law anywhere?
Are they responsible if you have?
Under EU law (EU eCommerce Directive), they would not be held liable for content created and uploaded by a user.
OK, if you want every website editor and owner to make sure any and all publicly displayed material has all the correct accompanying paperwork completed for every applicable law of every country in the world then you might as well stop using the internet now as nothing, business or otherwise, would go to that effort for even one tiny article of information. Even if someone did go to all that effort, good luck to them finding a hosting service as they would have all gone under the same weight of paperwork.
Unless Infinity Ward specifically built in support for VAC (which would mean it'd be with the non-steam version of MW2 as well) then VAC doesn't do anything to MW2 because it has little idea what to look for and no ability to ban/kick players from the game.
It's not limited to Valve games but most other companies prefer Punkbuster or leaving it in the hands of server admins.
I wish I had mod points today. I've been designing website for a company where >50% of their customer base use IE6 yet all I've ever needed is a blank HTML template setup for IE6 and a CSS reset file. With those two bits ready in the skeleton of every website we have had to do minimal testing in IE6 and only ever had 1 IE6 only bug which was caused by incorrect use of the 'button' element instead of an 'input[type=button]' element.
Unless you are specifically testing font variation between Apple's font renderer and Google's, there isn't a reason to test both Safari and Chrome. By all means keep them both around but they use the same renderer. Unless a major bug turns up in a specfic version of WebKit or you are using features not widely available, they should render the same.
YouTube was stuck in the H.264 situation before Google took control of it. Google are aiming to support both Ogg and H.264 in Chrome as far as I know but concentrated on H.264 because of all the content already in that format on YouTube. In essence, the decision for Chrome and YouTube to support H.264 was made by Adobe.
No addon can cast a spell automatically. You can however bind an addons functions to a macro that includes the spell cast and use that instead. I used to have one that I bound to the key left of 1 that used a variant of decursive to target a player with a debuff I could cleanse, if none found it left me with no target, the macro then tried to cast cleanse on my target (If I didn't have one it would attempt to cast it on myself and fail).
Yep, LUA can interact with the entire chat interface. Create/join channels, use/s/p/g/o/y/w/r/#, kick characters from channels, change settings, so on and so forth. The main things LUA can't do are things that require mouse activation (spells, looting, interacting with NPCs).
erm, I hate to ask but what other browser are you referring to?
Safari's window code may be proprietary but it uses Webkit as it's rendering engine, which to my knowledge is not only open source but the most standard compliant at the moment. http://webkit.org/
HTML5 hasn't been finished as a standard yet. Most notable, audio and video tags still need tweaking and at the moment there are two different standards for video codec:/
I'm not talking about a web app here. I'm talking about the core policy management database for our company which, for legal reasons, we cannot show another developer the database format so that they can rebuild it.
We can't possibly migrate the entries from that database either as if we did, we'd have to manually migrate nearly half a million entries just from the last year (50 employee company, 4 in the IT department).
The software company in question builds THE major system used by insurance companies. There are others but they were all custom built by banks from their internally built bank account management system.
Note: As a UK insurance company, both the Data Protection Act and the FSA prevent us from allowing a third party access to the database.
Unfortunately, it's not always possible to rewrite the software that is using IE6 (No access to the source code, None of the current IT department know the language the original software was written in).
Where I work there is a similar problem. Although we can upgrade the OS and IE happily (and most use Chrome in our office), the core software for the company (Insurance based) runs in a terminal emulator and the company who code it exports data for the paperless office software through a method that is killed by DEP so we have to disable it to use the software. No amount of conversations with the software developers will get them to change how they do it as they prefer the export feature didn't exist and no, we can't use an alternative.
Slashdot Mirror
Whether he contacted Apple or not does not matter. He did not attempt the most important step which was to hand it to the authorities.
No but he did purchase a phone that he knew the person who was selling it didn't own. Until the 'finder' had gone through the process required above he had no right to sell it so was selling stolen property to Gizmodo (and thus Gizmodo were purchasing stolen property).
1) No arrest was made
2) The police investigating the situation aren't looking to shut Gizmodo up. They are investigating the stolen property.
Annoyingly, it's the current host of Zero Punctuation so a lot of gamers know of and visit the site on a regular basis.
I doubt Dreamweaver sells anywhere near as many copies of CS as Photoshop or Illustrator do. Both PS and Illustrator are unmatched for features and quality whereas Dreamweaver was designed by Macromedia primarily to code HTML and Codefusion. Only recently has Dreamweaver's PHP support reached a decent level and it's rivals (Netbeans, Eclipse, etc.) are by far much better tools for server side development. I don't know if it is similar for ASP but both Netbeans and Eclipse also support JSP so that's 2 out of the 3 major server languages. Flash might sell quite a few copies, but people are moving away from using Flash except for a few pre-written apps (such as a media player, fancy news screen or canvas replacement).
I've reread your post and the article as requested by Anon and I still don't see any difference other than the amount of entries Google/Microsoft gets.
As an example, Visiting Slashdot in Google Chrome would produce a series of entries like this:
Firefox and IE would produce the following entry on Google or Microsoft's servers respectively when they check against their phishing filters:
So the only difference is that Chrome tells Google I make the occasional typo.
No, Firefox and IE both have autosuggest on the search field (exactly as Chrome has it, except IE sends to Bing by default). The only difference is Google/Microsoft only receive the URL on submit in IE or Firefox, not key by key (because Firefox still checks Google's phishing list and IE checks Microsoft's).
Tell me a browser that doesn't do this?
Does Opera not do these? (I don't have it installed here so can't check)
I don't get the whole Google panic thing... I know they know a lot of assorted pieces of information about from various different things, so does my ISP, the DNS I use (not my ISPs crappy one), McAfee (at work) and an assorted bunch of advertising sites (again at work due to lack of AdBlock).
As far as I'm concerned the vast majority of the data Google have on the account I have with them is to help them better serve me as a customer (just as I'm better served as a customer at my local shops because they know who I am and what I like). The rest of that data I actually ASKED them store (emails and some collaborative documents).
Because those are the people most likely to have actually paid for the content (via license). You don't need a license for iPlayer, so there is a chance (and I'm willing to bet it's quite high) that a lot of the viewers haven't paid for the content.
I live in the UK, have a TV and can watch more channels than are available on Freeview and all legally without a license by watching it on a catchup service on the internet (I've even asked TV Licensing about it). It's 'required' if you watch or record a currently broadcasting show but not if you watch a catch up service such as ITVPlayer, 4oD, etc. There was even an article on the BBC website about whether you could watch iPlayer without a license (yes as long as it's not currently being broadcast). Admittedly this requires more work than just plugging your Sky/Virgin/Freeview/Aerial into a TV but you don't have to do it that way and the license isn't compulsory.
TV Licensing can be a huge pain in the backside when they try chasing you down but that's because their check basically involves searching for unlicensed addresses, phoning Virgin/Sky to see if you have a TV package with them, if not checking your house for an aerial (when there are a few in the area they'll send someone to quickly check). If you have either of these they pester you.
You'll be glad to know then that GameInformer confirmed Portal 2 will get a Mac release (which means at least that version of Source has been ported).
Actually, it's D Rattmann. The Aperture Science website set the standard for their usernames as initial+surname (the site uses cjohnson for Cave Johnson the creator of Aperture Science). Doug Rattmann is believed to be the man who leaves the markings on the walls in Portal and was a programmer for Aperture Science according to the information in the ARG.
You do realise all of that CSS is from an unfinished specification for CSS3? Firefox, Webkit and Opera only support them through temporary names so you can experiment with them, the naming and usage hasn't been finalised. At the moment, IE's aiming at being at least complete in its support for CSS2 (the current standard) and THEN adding some of the new features for CSS3 when it's finalised (Microsoft have avoided trying to support unfinished parts of the CSS and HTML specifications for a while now).
Yes, this does mean we are unlikely to see Video and Audio tags finalised any time soon unless the other browser vendors can make up their minds without MS' vote
Do you have a website? Has your hosting company checked your site to make sure nothing you have posted breaks any law anywhere? Are they responsible if you have? Under EU law (EU eCommerce Directive), they would not be held liable for content created and uploaded by a user.
OK, if you want every website editor and owner to make sure any and all publicly displayed material has all the correct accompanying paperwork completed for every applicable law of every country in the world then you might as well stop using the internet now as nothing, business or otherwise, would go to that effort for even one tiny article of information. Even if someone did go to all that effort, good luck to them finding a hosting service as they would have all gone under the same weight of paperwork.
Unless Infinity Ward specifically built in support for VAC (which would mean it'd be with the non-steam version of MW2 as well) then VAC doesn't do anything to MW2 because it has little idea what to look for and no ability to ban/kick players from the game.
It's not limited to Valve games but most other companies prefer Punkbuster or leaving it in the hands of server admins.
I wish I had mod points today. I've been designing website for a company where >50% of their customer base use IE6 yet all I've ever needed is a blank HTML template setup for IE6 and a CSS reset file. With those two bits ready in the skeleton of every website we have had to do minimal testing in IE6 and only ever had 1 IE6 only bug which was caused by incorrect use of the 'button' element instead of an 'input[type=button]' element.
Unless you are specifically testing font variation between Apple's font renderer and Google's, there isn't a reason to test both Safari and Chrome. By all means keep them both around but they use the same renderer. Unless a major bug turns up in a specfic version of WebKit or you are using features not widely available, they should render the same.
YouTube was stuck in the H.264 situation before Google took control of it. Google are aiming to support both Ogg and H.264 in Chrome as far as I know but concentrated on H.264 because of all the content already in that format on YouTube. In essence, the decision for Chrome and YouTube to support H.264 was made by Adobe.
No addon can cast a spell automatically. You can however bind an addons functions to a macro that includes the spell cast and use that instead. I used to have one that I bound to the key left of 1 that used a variant of decursive to target a player with a debuff I could cleanse, if none found it left me with no target, the macro then tried to cast cleanse on my target (If I didn't have one it would attempt to cast it on myself and fail).
Yep, LUA can interact with the entire chat interface. Create/join channels, use /s /p /g /o /y /w /r /#, kick characters from channels, change settings, so on and so forth. The main things LUA can't do are things that require mouse activation (spells, looting, interacting with NPCs).
erm, I hate to ask but what other browser are you referring to?
Safari's window code may be proprietary but it uses Webkit as it's rendering engine, which to my knowledge is not only open source but the most standard compliant at the moment. http://webkit.org/
Chrome also uses Webkit and Chromium is the open source version of it. http://code.google.com/chromium/
Gecko is the open source renderer for Firefox and most of the other browsers that appear on a website's stats.
Opera is the only proprietary browser other than IE and it's pushing standards just as much as Gecko and Webkit.
am I missing something?
HTML5 hasn't been finished as a standard yet. Most notable, audio and video tags still need tweaking and at the moment there are two different standards for video codec :/
I'm not talking about a web app here. I'm talking about the core policy management database for our company which, for legal reasons, we cannot show another developer the database format so that they can rebuild it.
We can't possibly migrate the entries from that database either as if we did, we'd have to manually migrate nearly half a million entries just from the last year (50 employee company, 4 in the IT department).
The software company in question builds THE major system used by insurance companies. There are others but they were all custom built by banks from their internally built bank account management system.
Note: As a UK insurance company, both the Data Protection Act and the FSA prevent us from allowing a third party access to the database.
Unfortunately, it's not always possible to rewrite the software that is using IE6 (No access to the source code, None of the current IT department know the language the original software was written in).
Where I work there is a similar problem. Although we can upgrade the OS and IE happily (and most use Chrome in our office), the core software for the company (Insurance based) runs in a terminal emulator and the company who code it exports data for the paperless office software through a method that is killed by DEP so we have to disable it to use the software. No amount of conversations with the software developers will get them to change how they do it as they prefer the export feature didn't exist and no, we can't use an alternative.